Gapers Block has ceased publication.
Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions. ✶
TODAY
Wednesday, November 12
Slowdown
BY DAY
Sunday, March 16 2008
Orion Ensemble @ Music Institute of Chicago
Chicago's nationally recognized and critically acclaimed chamber music ensemble, continues its 15th anniversary season with three March concerts. Each program includes Ludwig van Beethoven's Trio in G Major for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 9, No. 1; Ingolf Dahl's
Concerto a Tre for Clarinet, Violin and Cello (1947); and Anton Arensky's Trio No. 1 in D Minor for Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 32. $23, $20 seniors, $8 students; FREE children 12 and younger. 3 p.m. Nichols Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston. For more info or tickets, call 630-628-9591 or visit the Website.
Sewing Rebellion @ Mess Hall
Emancipate yourself by learning how to sew! Free skill-sharing, time to work on your own project, fabric and clothes swapping, and more! Today's meeting is focused on quilting techniques, but all sewers and future sewers of all abilities are welcome. You're welcome to bring fabric, notions, thread, etc. that you'd like to give
away. Food or drink to share is cool too. Drop in anytime between noon-4 p.m. 6932 N. Glenwood. For more info, visit the Website.
Turntablist workshop @ Old Town School
The Old Town School of Folk Music presents the latest in a series of one-day workshops designed to teach students about a new musical or dance style in a single class. Today's workshop is the return of the turntablist workshop, as taught by battle DJ Danny the Wild Child. The workshop includes a lecture and demonstration by Danny, followed by semi-private lessons to work on basic skills. The class meets today from 1:30 PM to 4:50 PM at the school; the cost is $40, and you need to bring a notebook and tape recorder. To register for the class, please call the school at (773) 728-6000. This class fills up quickly, so register ASAP! Old Town School: 4544 N. Lincoln.
Pugilist Specialist Show & Baudrillard Book Discussion
After a showing of their Puglilist Specialist show about four US soldiers on their mission in the Middle East, Red Tape Theatre is holding a panel discussion about Jean Baudrillard's book The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. In the book, Baudrillard argues that the Gulf War did not happen, but was a media event or a "virtual" war. The show starts at 3pm and the discussion will follow at the Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph. Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for students and seniors. Call 312-742-8497 or visit www.dcatheater.org for tickets and information.
Chicago's Role in the Women Movement @ Chicago History Museum
The Chicago Area Women's History Council (CAWHC) invites you to the kick-off their new project, "Documenting the Women’s Movement in Chicago, 1960s-1980s," with a discussion about Chicago's unique
contributions to this important social movement. Featured speakers Sara M. Evans, noted women's historian from the University of Minnesota and author of Tidal Wave, How Women Changed America at Century's End; Mary Jean Collins, Midwest organizer and activist with People for the American Way;
- Erin McCarthy, Oral Historian at Columbia College; and Elizabeth Myers, Director of Women and Leadership
Archives at Loyola University. $14 for the public, free for CHM members. A reception with Veterans Feminist of America members honors activists included in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975.1:30 p.m. Register here.
Contempo: Sound Matters! @ Chicago Cultural Center
Four uniquely different musical journeys by composers working in America and Europe offer a fascinating glimpse into the exhilarating new sounds of our time. Performed by the Pacifica Quartet (pictured), eighth blackbird, and soprano Tony Arnold, the program includes composer David Karl Gompper's Butterfly Dance (for five players); Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (for voice and electronics); Henri Dutilleux's Ainsi la niut (for string quartet); and Krysztof Wolek's Changing Lands (for string quartet and electronics). 3 p.m. Preston Bradley Hall, 78 East Washington St. For more information about the Sunday Salon Series, please call the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs at 312-744-6630 or visit the Website.
UNICEF Tap Project @ Participating Restaurants
From March 16-22, a range of selected local restaurants (e.g. A Mano, Vie, D'Agostinos and Uncommon Ground) will be participating in the UNICEF Tap Project, a benefit that asks diners to pay an extra $1 of their meal cost to support clean, accessible drinking water worldwide. Visit one of these restaurants tonight to support this worthwhile cause.
